By Elizabeth Pond, Greek Helsinki Monitor, 4 October
1999. Bulgarians are renouncing old-fashioned ethnic hatred
and achieving reconciliation with hallowed but independent
Macedonia for the first time after 86 successive years of
hostility. It is possible to demythologize the past and
show that “southeastern Europe is not
accursed.”, but at first followed Milosevic's
xenophobia. Democratic backlash against the
ex-Communists.

BBC News Online, Monday 18 June 2001. A chronology of key
events. A simple political chronology except when facts are
culled from other dimensions of life in order to lend
support to the BBC's ideological position.

By Georgi Filipov, AIM Sofia, 12 November 1999. On 10
November, 1989 an internal party coup in the Bulgarian
Communist Party (BKP) and the position of its secretary
general of BPK was taken by Petar Mladenov, and this marked
the beginning of a peaceful transition towards
democracy. Ten years later, what has happened and what
should have happened, but did not happen, in in this
period?